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 Whether you’re just coming into the area, or are already a seasoned professional with big data cloud solutions, "BigDataCloud - Today!" is the place to gain unique insight into how big data problems can be solved today, from both a technical and a business perspective. This will give you a competitive edge to accelerate bringing solutions to market and gain substantia ...

Organizations as diverse as Northrop Grumman (NOC), Harvard University, Zynga, and the New York Stock Exchange (NYX) have filled job websites with requests for talented puppeteers and master chefs. A quick dig into the job listings reveals that these positions have nothing to do with office entertainment or gourmet meals. Instead, the companies want people who have mastered Puppet or Chef, competing softwar ...

We get asked a lot of questions about how to select Apache Hadoop worker node hardware. During my time at Yahoo!, we bought a lot of nodes with 6*2TB SATA drives, 24GB RAM and 8 cores in a dual socket configuration. This has proven to be a pretty good configuration. This year, I’ve seen systems with 12*2TB SATA drives, 48GB RAM and 8 cores in a dual socket configurations. We will see a move to 3TB drives th ...

IBM has signed a definitive agreement to acquire i2, a maker of intelligence analytics tools for crime and fraud prevention. IBM has announced an agreement to acquire i2 to accelerate its business analytics initiatives and help clients in the public and private sectors address crime, fraud and security threats. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. i2, with more than 4,500 customers in 150 countri ...

New technologies are enabling companies to perform increasingly sophisticated data analytics on very large and very diverse data sets, an upcoming report from The Data Warehousing Institute (TDWI) shows. The report is based on responses from 325 IT managers, business users and consultants at small, medium and large companies. Slightly more than a third of the respondents said they are currently running some ...

Third Eye is launching "Byte Sized Hadoop" classes – for as low as $125/class! These Hadoop classes will be offered byte-sized, 3 hours each, after work hours & conducted by industry veterans with a practical "from-the-trenches" approach. BigDataCloud meetup attendees have heard & met the instructors individually: Paul Baclace - presented "Optimizing bursty Hadoop analysis demands for big data using A ...

I spend lot of time tracking and monitoring Hadoop jobs running across multiple clusters in my current project. Typically I navigate around multiple Job tracker web admin consoles. Although the job tracker web console gives some basic system level statuses and metrics for Hadoop daemons, it leaves a lot to be desired. What’s missing is a monitoring platform at the application level. In my Hadoop job I may h ...

Jobs around Hadoop technologies have exploded while the number of professionals experienced on Hadoop have not! The current job markets around Hadoop technologies is a very different one, one that is opposite to everything else other job markets all over the US are experiencing today. Jobs around Hadoop technologies have exploded, in all parts of the US, in companies big and small – while the number of prof ...

The cloud computing world has been anxious to hear former NASA CTO Chris Kemp’s plans since he left his post in the spring to pursue a startup venture, and on Wednesday morning, he introduced his new company, Nebula. It’s selling an OpenStack-based appliance for managing scale-out cloud deployments, and is backed by premier talent and investors. Nebula isn’t disclosing how much it has raised, but Co-Founder ...

Users share billions of pieces of content daily on Facebook, and it’s the data infrastructure team's job to analyze that data so we can present it to those users and their friends in the quickest and most relevant manner. This requires a lot of infrastructure and supporting data, so much so that we need to move that data periodically to ever larger data centers. Just last month, the data infrastructure team ...